I’m in the Times today, in Clyde Haberman’s column, regarding the widespread flouting of the law requiring stores to keep their doors closed when they run the air-conditioner.

“If, after the smoking ban was enacted, 40 bars decided to invite smokers to light up, I presume we’d hear from the mayor,” Mr. Kaufman said.

It would be good if the mayor, who cares so much about our waist-lines, showed some leadership in something he professes is a priority of his administration (keeping the planet we all live on, habitable for human life).